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Craniofacial growth patterns in mouse models for Apert syndrome. Apert syndrome is caused by two neighboring mutations on Fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2). Multimodal imaging and segmentation was used to visualize and quantitate overall morphology of soft tissues (gray), skull (yellow), inner ear (purple), nasopharynx (pink) and globe of the eye (green) in Fgfr2+/S252W Apert syndrome mice and Fgfr2+/P253R Apert syndrome mice at embryonic day 17.5 (E17.5) (left) and on the day of birth (P0) (right) (Fgfr2+/S252W mice are shown). Image: Susan Motch Perrine/Penn State Source: 3-D imaging sheds light on Apert Syndrome development (Penn State)

Tabs wants to keep being a boss kitty feline fashion mogul, and he wants to share his impeccable fashion sense with the world, but more and more cats these days are content wearing off-the-shelf full-body cat costumes, and they aren’t trying as hard to by stylish as they used to… There’s just a lot of bad feline fashion out there. Even though he has nothing left to prove, Tabs still plans out each of his daily outfits. Every afternoon I get a text from him with instructions, like “take out my bright blue tie for tomorrow.” I actually almost got...

Come on, we’re all beauty addicts here. You must have changed something lately. Mine is that I swapped black liner for colorful shades on my upper lash line. Mind you, I’m still extremely on board with black on my upper water line (Chanel 88 Noir Intense for life), but dang! — purple, blue, green, gray or brown on the upper lash line — basically any color other than black — is the business. I think my eyes look MUCH bigger and brighter when I wear bright liner. Of course, this revelation could also be a feeble excuse to expand my...

111 years ago, Albert Einstein send on ’Annalen der Physik’ the 4th of his Annus Mirabilis papers, a three-page paper titled: “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?” [PDF, wikipedia], from which it’s can be derived the famous relation E = mc². Actually you can not find such equation in the article and rather you will find this other one, a bit ugliest (and approximate, magnitudes of fourth and higher orders are neglected):E = mc² is not the same equation but still serves at least to illustrate the equivalence relationship between mass and energy (through the...

I saw a tiny tiara at Target the other day and thought about Snowflake. She was Tabs’s longtime…how shall we say this — kitty companion? I remembered the time he took her to Tiffany and said she could pick out anything she wanted, but when she picked out an engagement ring, Tabs looked really nervous. “Oh, um…” he meowed, “anything except a ring.” So Snowflake picked a tiny tiara instead. Tabs was funny about relationships… He wasn’t a player, but at the same time, he never put a ring on it with Snowflake, even though I thought he should, just...